Campbell Stuart

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Campbell Stuart

Sir Campbell Arthur Stuart (born July 5, 1885 in Montreal , † September 14, 1972 ) was a Canadian manager in the Anglo-Saxon newspaper publishing business, military and propaganda leader of the Allies in both world wars.

Stuart came from a wealthy Buckinghamshire family who emigrated to New York in 1715 . In 1916 he came to England with an Irish-Canadian regiment and a letter of recommendation to the newspaper publisher Alfred Harmsworth . As Deputy Military Attaché of the British Embassy he went to Washington DC soon afterwards. The Harmsworth sent to the USA by David Lloyd George as chairman of the British War Mission recruited him as Military Secretary for the mission and George appointed him lieutenant colonel. In New York he fulfilled the interview requests for Harmsworth.

Because of the success of the mission - the USA entered the war on the side of the Entente - Harmsworth was raised to Viscount Northcliffe and Stuart at 32 years of age Knight Commander ("Sir") of the Order of the British Empire . From February 1918, both headed the Directorate of Propaganda for Enemy Countries of the secret Ministry of Information in London's Crewe House (Curzon Street).

Demobilized after the war, he returned to Canada, but was appointed by Northcliffe as London General Manager of the London Times , but was soon downgraded to ordinary director. From 1923 he represented the Canadian government on the "Pacific Cable Board", which had linked Canada, Australia and New Zealand in 1902 with submarine cables. At the "Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference" in 1928 he was appointed chairman of a newly formed "Royal Communications Advisory Committee" to control Cable & Wireless .

Immediately after the beginning of the Second World War, Stuart was supposed to found another propaganda organization, which became the Department of Propaganda in Enemy Countries and was only called EH after his accommodation at the Department Electra House on the banks of the Thames. Perhaps because of a dispute over competencies with the Political Intelligence Department (PID), a secret department of the State Department in the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), he resigned and again headed the advisory committee, which has since been renamed the "Commonwealth Communications Council". When Cable & Wireless was nationalized in 1945, Stuart resigned. Until 1960 he remained director of the " Times ".

Fonts

  • Secrets of Crewe House. The story of a famous campaign. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1920 ( online ).

literature

  • Telling the Secrets of the Crewe House. Book review. New York Times, November 21, 1920.
  • Dieter Nelles: Resistance and International Solidarity. The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) in the resistance against National Socialism with special consideration of seafarers. Dissertation. Klartext, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-88474-956-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AH Young: The Revd. [Reverend] John Stuart, DD, UEL, of Kingston, UC and his family: a genealogical study . Kingston: Whig Press, 1920, pp. 39 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Stuart, Campbell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stuart, Sir Campbell Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian author, propagandist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Canada
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1972